Ethanol

Blending ethanol into our gasoline might play an important role in reducing the emissions of our vehicles, but it doesn’t really play a part in reducing gas prices. Christopher Knittel, an economist with the Massachusetts Institute of technology, has found that – whatever the benefits or the drawbacks of ethanol – the price of gasoline is not substantially affected by the volume of its etha...

Ethanol production and sales by mills in the South Central Region of Brazil have gone up for the period of the second half of July, according to UNICA, the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association. Ethanol sales have totalled at 1.44 billion liters in the second half of July, up by 31.23 percent from 1.09 billion liters that were sold in the first half of the month, and a 33.21 percent increase from the 1.08 billion liters...

Praj Industries is setting up the first cellulosic ethanol demo plant in South Asia in the state of Maharashtra in India. The company, which is a global provider of process solutions for bioethanol, alcohol and brewery, water and wastewater and critical process equipment, is setting up an integrated second generation cellulosic ethanol plant. Work on the project has commenced with the groundbreaking for the facility...

According to the UNICA, the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association, ethanol sales in the region are on the rise – a strong indication that the consumers are realizing the benefits that they are getting from the clean fuel. In the South Central region of the country, ethanol sales by mills went up to 2.08 billion liters this May, up by 27.85 percent from April’s figures which only totaled at 1.63 billion liters...

Chromatin, Inc. and Pacific Ethanol, Inc. have entered a multi-year agreement to produce, deliver and use the grain crop sorghum for ethanol. Sorghum is a grass variety that can grown in both drought and heat conditions. Sorghum grain is considered a promising biofuel feedstock, with the residue from harvesting sorghum grain also being of value as a high quality animal feed. The agreement calls for Chromatin...

Renewable fuels retailer Propel Fuels is set to build more than 100 ethanol fuel stations in California over the next four years. The company was awarded a $10.1 million grant from the California Energy Commission for the project which will serve California’s approximately 500,000 flex fuel vehicles.

The use of domestically produced ethanol as a fuel additive by Americans has reduced wholesale gasoline prices by an average of $1.09 per gallon in 2011, according to research from the University of Wisconsin and Iowa State University. The researchers say higher oil and gasoline prices, increased ethanol inclusion, and ethanol having larger discounts to gasoline were the primary factors for the price drop last year.

As biomass use as alternative fuels become more mainstream, more attention needs to be given to logistics, like how raw biomass materials are transported from farms to refineries and how they are prepared for shipping. Bruce Dale, a chemical engineering and materials science professor of Michigan State University, suggests a new model for farm-to-refinery transport, called regional biomass processing depots.

A bill filed in the United States House of Representatives – House Resolution 3552 filed by Rep. Charles Rangel, Democrat of New York, which seeks to extend import duties on foreign ethanol – was met with opposition from the sugarcane industry.

Shell International Petroleum Co. Ltd. and large-scale Brazilian biofuels producer Cosan S.A. finally launched their $12-billion ethanol joint venture, Raízen, a retail and commercial fuels company which will operate in Brazil.The joint venture, signed as early as August last year, is expected to become the third largest fuels company in Brazil.

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